Pamquilter

Calgary, Canada

I grew up in South Africa and enjoyed knitting from the age of fifteen. I dabbled in making my own clothes but really only started doing cross stitch and quilting at the age of forty when we moved to Newfoundland and i joined a needleworkers guild. I have to confess quilting is now somewhat of an obsession and I no longer need any excuse to make a quilt. All it takes is for me to see a new pattern or fabric or a visit with my wonderful ... Read Full Bio »

I grew up in South Africa and enjoyed knitting from the age of fifteen. I dabbled in making my own clothes but really only started doing cross stitch and quilting at the age of forty when we moved to Newfoundland and i joined a needleworkers guild. I have to confess quilting is now somewhat of an obsession and I no longer need any excuse to make a quilt. All it takes is for me to see a new pattern or fabric or a visit with my wonderful quilting buddy, Janice, to be frantically cutting out more fabric and zipping the pieces together. Best quilting joke I ever heard was someone said they couldn't understand why anyone would want to cut fabric up into little pieces only to sew them all together again. Well, millions of us do just that and it gives us great satisfaction. I consider us all artists in our own little way and our medium is fabric.